...Wholesale rejection of rights does not allow for the expression of such essential difference. . . . For the historically disempowered, the conferring of rights is symbolic of all the denied aspects of humanity: rights imply a respect which places one within the referential range of self and others,...

...groups that is different from what that assertion means to, for example, white male legal academics. For the historically disempowered, the conferring of rights is symbolic of all the denied aspects of humanity: rights imply a respect which places one within the referential range of self and others,...

...one simply of analytical disagreement but of practical consequences. Patricia Williams (1991) writes: 'For the historically disempowered, the conferring...elevates one's status from human body to social being' (p. 1 53). The language of rights, in the context of Europe and North America, has been a central mechanism...

...issues of community, identity and belonging: it is about who is 'in' and who is 'out'. Williams writes: For the historically disempowered, the conferring...their humanity: rights imply a respect that places 36 one in the referential range of self and others, that elevates one's status from human body to social...

...sexual difference. Rights and Identity in Late Modernity: Revisiting the "Jewish Question" Wendy Brown For the historically disempowered, the conferring...elevates one's status from human body to social being. . . . — Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights [I]t is not through recourse to sovereignty...

...exist in legally protected, formal relations to one another. As Patricia Williams has argued, "[RJights imply a respect that places one in the referential range of self and others . . . the attainment of rights signifies the respectful behavior, the collective responsibility, properly...

...social identities, but a more general recognition of humanity. Thus Williams (1991) maintains that "for the historically disempowered, the conferring...elevates one's status from human body to social being" (p. 153). By far the most intense discussions have addressed the issue of universalism itself: Is it...

...Williams challenges the Critical Legal Studies movement's rejection of rights-based theory, arguing that "for the historically disempowered, the conferring...of rights is symbolic of all the denied aspects of humanity" (416). "The concept of rights," Williams concludes,"is the marker of our citizenship, our...

...social identities, but a more general recognition of humanity. Thus Patricia Williams maintains that "for the historically disempowered, the conferring...elevates one's status from human body to social being" (Williams 1991:153). By far the most intense discussions have addressed the issue of the universalism...

...As Patricia Williams has pointed out, rights have crucial symbolic and psychological significance: "For the historically disempowered, the conferring...that elevates one's status from human body to social being."'02 Like domestic law, international human rights law recognizes these benefits of "rights talk."'0'...